Microsoft founder Bill Gates shares how he would handle the ‘toughest’ job interview question

Microsoft founder Bill Gates once found himself in the hot seat of a job interview with basketball legend Steph Curry. But instead of discussing just philanthropy or basketball, Curry decided to turn the tables. He put Gates in the hot seat with a challenge: answer questions as if he were interviewing for a junior engineering role at Microsoft. For Bill Gates, who left Harvard to start Microsoft and went on to become one of the world’s richest persons, it was a playful throwback.

When Curry asked the standard interview question – “Why should we hire you?” – Gates leaned on his programming skills. “You should look at the code that I’ve written. You know, I’m kind of crazy, I write software programs way beyond any classes that I’ve taken, and think I’ve gotten better over time,” he replied.